On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> that says what wcwidth should be for a VT100 UTF-8 terminal emulator
> (something like an RFC, Unicode TR, or ECMA standard), in order to
> ensure wcwidth interoperability between systems (in the light of telnet,
> ssh, etc.). It might well be a good idea to give the ALEF LAM ligatures
> a wcwidth() == 2 in such a spec, so we should definitely play around
> with the idea and add the necessary glyphs to at least some of the
> terminal emulator fonts.
Indeed, this is a good idea. But it does not cause the ligature to
actually happen automatically, which I consider desirable. This change
can be made without breaking anything.
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